Hey everybody, today is my first day back from holidays. You know you've got a great job when you cannot wait to get back to it! Entertaining a 3 and a 6 year old for 10 straight days might have something to do with it...... but nevertheless, it's good to be back. While I was away, Adam Higson (Trainer Number One) was in Tokyo, Japan fighting in a Shoot Boxing tournament. He totally CRUSHED his favoured opponent and spent the rest of the week riding in limousines like a Rock Star! Nobody deserves success more than Adam. He is a workhorse, a rock and an absolute professional. Adam worked, trained, dieted and never once complained. He was Greyhound lean and Steel Town mean. Good job buddy!
I was really excited to get back to Shelley Thorsen today, another workhorse. Shelley is almost half-way to her goal of losing 120lbs. and worked hard as always today.
I also had the pleasure of working with Cathy Baldwin for the first time today since Matteo Tino, her regular trainer, is in Europe travelling and training for 5 weeks. Wow! What a blast. This lady works hard and Matteo has obviously prepped her in a big way. She handled her first "fat liberation workout" today with some blood, sweat and tears, but, with a lot of laughs as well. The point of FATLib training is to work with high intensity for a brief time to deplete the body of stored sugar and then to engage in cardio work to then burn stored fat. Here is an example of that type of workout:
Leg Extensions supersetted with Squats 2 x 10-15 reps of each. After the second superset, you would go IMMEDIATELY back to the Leg Extensions where you would perform reps to failure. At that point, you would remove some weight and continue to failure again. Repeat 3 times in all. Ouch. It doesn't take long but is extremely effective at depleting stored glycogen (sugar) levels so that your body will burn fat more effectively during the endurance portion of the training.
Finally, I had a chance to work out with Sheila Wynne Fung (one of our Superhuman trainers). When any two trainers work out together with limited time, things tend to get...."interesting". Yesterday, I got an email from a fellow trainer in Chicago describing a Navy Seal Challenge workout that they do at his studio for "fun". Sheila is a little nuts, so she says to me, "Hey let's try the Challenge workout!" Anyways, the workout involves no equipment and is as follows:
Run a mile
Perform 300 Bodyweight Squats
Perform 200 Pushups
Perform 100 Pullups
Run a mile
??? Yikes.
Time the whole thing and see if you can get in under 30 minutes. Luckily, we did not have time for the running part and did "just" the exercises :). We broke things down into sets of 5 to 100! Ow. We did it, but, man it was tough. Sheila (the Superhuman) started with 100 Full Pushups from her toes!! At The Studio, "girl" pushups do not exist.
Next week, we will do it with the running. Think you're tough? Give it a shot.
I was really excited to get back to Shelley Thorsen today, another workhorse. Shelley is almost half-way to her goal of losing 120lbs. and worked hard as always today.
I also had the pleasure of working with Cathy Baldwin for the first time today since Matteo Tino, her regular trainer, is in Europe travelling and training for 5 weeks. Wow! What a blast. This lady works hard and Matteo has obviously prepped her in a big way. She handled her first "fat liberation workout" today with some blood, sweat and tears, but, with a lot of laughs as well. The point of FATLib training is to work with high intensity for a brief time to deplete the body of stored sugar and then to engage in cardio work to then burn stored fat. Here is an example of that type of workout:
Leg Extensions supersetted with Squats 2 x 10-15 reps of each. After the second superset, you would go IMMEDIATELY back to the Leg Extensions where you would perform reps to failure. At that point, you would remove some weight and continue to failure again. Repeat 3 times in all. Ouch. It doesn't take long but is extremely effective at depleting stored glycogen (sugar) levels so that your body will burn fat more effectively during the endurance portion of the training.
Finally, I had a chance to work out with Sheila Wynne Fung (one of our Superhuman trainers). When any two trainers work out together with limited time, things tend to get...."interesting". Yesterday, I got an email from a fellow trainer in Chicago describing a Navy Seal Challenge workout that they do at his studio for "fun". Sheila is a little nuts, so she says to me, "Hey let's try the Challenge workout!" Anyways, the workout involves no equipment and is as follows:
Run a mile
Perform 300 Bodyweight Squats
Perform 200 Pushups
Perform 100 Pullups
Run a mile
??? Yikes.
Time the whole thing and see if you can get in under 30 minutes. Luckily, we did not have time for the running part and did "just" the exercises :). We broke things down into sets of 5 to 100! Ow. We did it, but, man it was tough. Sheila (the Superhuman) started with 100 Full Pushups from her toes!! At The Studio, "girl" pushups do not exist.
Next week, we will do it with the running. Think you're tough? Give it a shot.
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